Agata Błoch

Participation in grants and research projects:

1. 2023–2027: ‘Imperial commoners of Brazil and West Africa (1640–1822): global history from a correspondence network perspective’, funded by NCN, OPUS, no. 2022/45/B/HS3/00473.
2. 2022–2023: DARIAH-PL. LAB. Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities.
3. 2018–2021: “The Portuguese overseas identity in the context of the social network analysis”, funded by NCN, Preludium 14, no. 2017/27/N/HS3/01104.
4. 2016–2017: Grant for International Researchers Investigating Portuguese Culture in Lisbon, Portugal, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

Books:

1. Wolni i Zniewoleni. Głosy grup podporządkowanych w historii imperium portugalskiego, Monografie Fundacji na Rzecz Nauki Polskiej, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika, Toruń, 2022, pp. 1–450.
2. Livres e escravizados. As vozes dos subalternos no império colonial português, Museu da História do Movimento Popular Polonês em Varsóvia: Instituto de Estudos Ibéricos e Ibero-americanos da Universidade de Varsóvia, Warszawa, 2022, pp. 1–468.
3. Cabo Verde: Paraíso do Atlântico colonial, Editora Fi, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2019, pp. 1–184.

Refereed Journal Articles:

1. “The miserable vassals of the Empire. The androgynous codes of behaviour of Blacks and Indigenous in late colonial Brazil (1775–1808)”, Canadian Journal of History, 2022  [in print].
2. [With Michał Bojanowski and Demival Vasques Filho] “Networks from archives: reconstructing networks of official communication in the early modern Portuguese Empire“, Social Networks, vol. 69 (2022), pp. 123–135.
3. “Lojalni portugalskim monarchom – militarne oddziały czarnoskórych w kolonialnej Brazylii“, Studia Historica Gedanensia, vol. 12, no. 1 (2021), pp. 158–176.
4. “Um frei carmelita no mundo de intrigas eclesiásticas – uma tentativa de reconstruir o crime de assassinato cometido pelo padre Manuel da Madre de Deus e seu escravo António Fernadnes”, Revista Eletrônica de História Social da Cidade, vol. 1, no. 26 (2021), pp. 88–116.
5. [With Marco Vallada Lemonte] “Introduction to the Meteoric Political Rise of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro under a crisis of Brazilianness”, Ameryka Łacińska, 4 (2020), pp. 1–22.
6. “Estudar, entender e falar polonês na Polônia. As possíveis linhas de investigação pelos pesquisadores poloneses”, Revista Nordestina de História do Brasil, Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia, 2018, pp. 7–27.
7. “Dos bárbaros selvagens no oeste tropical aos “bárbaros do sul” no Extremo Oriente. Brasil e Japão nos olhos dos exploradores portugueses”, Rivista di Stugi Portoghesi e Brasiliani, 20 (2018), pp. 53–64.

Book chapters:

1. [With Michał Bojanowski and Demival Vasques Filho] “Slaves, Freedmen, Indians, and Pardos. The Early Modern Social Networks of the Population of Color in the Atlantic Portuguese Empire”, in: The Digital Black Atlantic, eds. Roopika Risam, Kelly Baker Josephs, University of Minnesota Press, 2021, pp. 238–261.
2. [With Michał Bojanowski and Demival Vasques Filho] “Identidade portuguesa ultramarina – a aplicação de Digital Humaninties aos estudos historiográficos. Desafios e oportunidades de Social Network Analysis em ciências sociais“, in: Intersecções transdisciplinares: ensaios críticos sobre o universo da língua portuguesa, eds. R. Diaz-Schmidt et al., Instytut Studiów Iberyjskich i Iberioamerykańskich Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warszawa, 2021, pp. 251–270.
3. “A historiografia colonial de baixo para cima. Ameaça, uma abordagem nova ou complementar à história escrita de cima“, in: História em Movimento, eds. Thiago Cedrez, Edgar Avila Gandra, Elvis Silveira Simões, Casaletras, Porto Alegre, 2020, pp. 10–25.
4. “Portraying womanhood in the feminine Portuguese Atlantic“, in: Distributive Struggle and the Self in the Early Modern Iberian World, eds. N. Böttcher, S. Rinke, N. Vallen, Verlag Hans Dieter Heinz, Akademischer Verlag, Stuttgart, 2019, pp. 219–246.
5. “Od dzikich barbarzyńców na tropikalnym Zachodzie do barbarzyńców z południa na Dalekim Wschodzie. Brazylia i Japonia oczami ich portugalskich odkrywców“, in: Studia nad odmiennością na przestrzeni dziejów, eds. J. Żychlińska, A. Głowacka-Penczyńska, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Kazimierza Wielkiego, Bydgoszcz, 2018, pp. 69–84.
6. “Historie tysiąca i jednej nocy Pierwszego Cesarza Brazylii, D. Pedro I. Wstęp do historii miłości w Brazylii“, in: Przyjemności duchowe i cielesne w kulturze na przestrzeni dziejów, eds. R. Bubczyk, B. Hołub, Uniwersytet Marii Curie Skłodowskiej, Lublin, 2016, pp. 139–156.
7. “A interligação como marca do Império Português’, in: Língua Portuguesa. Unidade na Diversidade, eds. B. Hlibowicka-Węglarz, J. Wiśniewska, E. Jabłońska, Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej, Lublin, 2016, pp. 9–21.

Article Reviews:

1. “Santos, Patricia Teixeira & Kumar, Suresh. Faith, War and Slavery: a history of the Colonial Conquest of Sudan (1881–1898). Delhi: University of Delhi & São Paulo: Editora Unifesp, 2021, 284”, Journal of African History [in print].
2. “Cacicas: The Indigenous Women Leaders of Spanish America, 1492–1825. M.R. Ochoa, and S. V. Guengerich (eds). University of Oklahoma Press, 2021“, Early American Literature, vol. 57, no. 2 (2022), pp. 575–579.
3. “Histórias da África e Ásia portuguesas. D. Marques, H. Moreira, T. Sampaio (org). Recife: EDUPE, 2020“, Via Spiritus: Revista de História da Espiritualidade e do Sentimento Religioso, vol. 27 (2020), pp. 215–218.